Word: italian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Black, Starr & Frost-Gorham, Inc., famed Manhattan jewelers, opened the doors of their new Fifth Avenue store last week. The interior was 16th century Italian Gothic. Displayed was a $750,000 pearl necklace, exquisitely matched...
...Louis Symphony began a Golden Jubilee season to milestone its 50 years of existence. As has been the situation for two years past, St. Louis has no permanent conductor; guest leaders will split the schedule. Spaniard Enrique Fernandez Arbos held the baton last week. Italian Bernardino Molinari will succeed him in January. Then follows George Szell of the Berlin Staatsoper, making his U. S. debut, and Eugene Goossens (see above...
...17th Century the halcyon art of Italy had completely decayed. From, the death of Michelangelo to the present day, with the exception of a colorful but shallow digression at Venice, good Italian painting has been practically nonexistent. But in 1884, a sickly boy was born in the Ghetto at Leghorn, Tuscany, to Flaminio Modigliani, son of a Roman usurer. The boy was named Amedeo which means "love of God." Under the guidance of his uncle Isaac described by one of his family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious...
...Modigliani's "daubs." And they have been answered variously. Recently an absurd attempt was made to apply the yardstick to Modigliani, to prove that he did not distort human anatomy.* Others admit the distortion but defend it by saying that the Egyptians distorted, as did El Greco, the Italian primitives. The merits of Modigliani, they add, are many: his color is finely schematic; his line is sensitive and delineates the sitter's character with wit and insight; his best canvases show the feeling of a real primitive; he is akin to the Siennese, a true Italian...
...declared he was happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand. She kissed his cheek. The other players did not count. As Forty-Niners they were patently masquerading. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Dick Johnson) had suffered and sobbed in the best Italian manner. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Jack Rance) was more credible, but looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised the performance above incongruity, saved the plot from appearing like any cinematic melodrama. She made comedy in the first act out of dishwashing, in the second out of tight slippers...